Tech Dominates in ACC Home Opener – Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

THE FLATS – Georgia Tech baseball (15-3, 3-1 ACC) cruised to a 10-1 series opening victory over Pitt (10-6, 0-1 ACC) on Friday night inside Mac Nease Baseball Park at Russ Chandler Stadium. Tate McKee delivered his best outing of the season on the mound, going 6.0 innings and allowing only one run on two hits while Drew Burress and Carson Kerce drove in eight of Tech’s 10 runs to give the Yellow Jackets a victory in the ACC home opener.

QUICK HITS: THE TEAM

• Tech improves to 15-3 this season, the best 18-game start to a season in 12 years (since 2013).
• The Jackets are 3-1 in ACC play for the fourth time in the last five seasons.
• GT has won its ACC home opener for the fourth year in a row.
• The Jackets were in control throughout, leading from the 2^nd inning onward and adding in three insurance runs in the seventh. Tech is outscoring their opponents 11-1 in the final three innings over the last five games.
• The Yellow Jackets lead the all-time series with Pitt, 18-14, following today’s result.
• This was head coach Danny Hall’s 1,426^th victory as a college baseball coach, putting him just one win away from tying Cliff Gustafson (1,427) for the 10^th most in NCAA history.
• The Jackets allowed only three hits for the second straight game, the fewest allowed over a nine-inning ACC game since May 5, 2023 (vs. Pitt).
• Today marks the first time Tech has allowed three or fewer hits in back-to-back games since a doubleheader against Duke in 2012 (March 31^st – 3 hits in game one / 2 hits in game two) – those games featured a complete game shutout from Buck Farmer and 4.1 innings from Luke Bard – both future major leaguers.
• The bullpen allowed only one hit over 3.0 innings (3.0 hits/9) – it is the sixth time this season the bullpen has allowed three or fewer hits-per-nine innings.

QUICK HITS: THE BATS

• Sophomore Drew Burress connected for his team-leading 7^th home run of the season and the 32^nd of his career as a Yellow Jacket, passing Georgia Tech legend Scott Byers (1993-96) on the all-time home run leaderboard as he creeps closer to the Top 20 in program history (36).
• Burress has hit home runs in back-to-back games for the second time this season and the fifth time in his career.
• The home run drove in two, himself and Kyle Lodise. Burress would add two more RBI off a double in the seventh inning for a 4 RBI game, his second 4+ RBI game of the season and sixth of his career.
• The Houston County, Ga. native has now reached base in a career-best 36 consecutive games…